Behold: Le Hexagone! Obviously 20% better than The Pentagon, and stylized, to boot.
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Originally Posted by slate
On Thursday, French President François Hollande inaugurated the country’s new Ministry of Defense, a $4.5 billion project that has long been billed as France’s answer to the Pentagon. For the first time, more than 9,000 personnel from the French Army, Navy, and Air Force have abandoned a dozen scattered offices in charming 18th-century mansions in Paris and nearby suburbs to unite under one roof. The French government is calling the new seven-story control-and-command center built on 41 acres around a former army air base near the Balard Métro station in the 15th arrondissement “a major step in the process of modernization” of its military operations. |
Even in their time of crisis, France tries to one-up the US.